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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Loss or lack of bodily strength; weakness; debility.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In pathology, debility; want of strength. Also astheny.
  2. n. [capitalized] In zoology, a genus of insects.

Wiktionary

  1. n. medicine weakness; loss of strength

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an abnormal loss of strength

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ἀσθένεια (asthénia), from ἀσθενής (asthenḗs, "sick, weak"), from ἀ- (a, "not, un-") + σθένος (thénos, "strength"). (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin, from Greek astheneia, from asthenēs, weak : a-, without; see a-1 + sthenos, strength. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • chained_bear "'Strychnin sic in large doses hypodermically had a distinct value in the existing asthenia....'"
    —John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (NY: Penguin Books, 2004), 358 Feb 17, 2009

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